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I have decided, the cousin Prince Yul will be Prince Sai and Itachi will be the brother that will come in way later. Hope you guys agree with this decision, I couldn't wait any longer because I'm sitting here doing nothing when my hands are itching to type this chapter so…here ya go!
London, England…
Sai's mother walks into the living room to find him sleeping on the couch. The TV is still on and he is clutching a book.
"Oh my, you have been reading all night haven't you? Still sleeping at this hour?" She sits down beside him and puts a hind on his chest. "Sasuke is getting married."
Sai's eyes start to open slowly, "Eh? Really?" Sai sits up to look at his mother while rubbing his eyes.
"I just received the news. I don't know why they have to be so hasty, but I'm sure something is going on at the palace. We have to act fast, so you will go first. I will follow after when I have taken care of things here."
Sai looks at his mother and looks down. "We have waited 14 years, the time has come now," says Sai's mother.
Back at the palace…
Sasuke has his music player on and is sitting in a chair; across from him are his parents.
"So have you made a decision?" Fugaku asks his son.
Sasuke looks up from the screen, "What decision?"
"Decision to accept a wife," Fugaku says while pulling his teacup to his mouth.
"Does my decision really matter?"
"Would you put that down?" Sasuke looks at his father and slowly removes the headphones and lets it go, it drops to his side.
Fugaku clears his throat and Sasuke picks up the piece of paper on the table. "I mean, what kind of friend is he?" Sasuke tosses it back to the table once he finished his question.
"I heard it was his only true friend," Mikoto finally speaks.
Sasuke smirks. "Kings can't have true friends."
Fugaku puts down the teacup onto the table besides him as it makes a loud clank as it touches the saucer. Mikoto looks at her husband and back at her son.
"Don't talk like that to his majesty," Mikoto says.
"Like you said, it's lonely being a king. That is why it's nice to have a good friend. Fortunately, you grandfather had a friend like that and wanted to thank him."
Sasuke slightly smirks. "That is why he made two copies of the ring and the sign and sent it to his friend along with the letter sitting in front of you," Mikoto adds.
"This is quite amusing. A promise of marriage between the crown prince and the King's friend's granddaughter," Sasuke smirks. "I guess that's me then"
"Not exactly, as least not back then," Fugaku implies as Sasuke looks up from the paper to his father and back at it. "As you know, this was when your uncle was the Crown Prince. So it was Sai who was supposed to take the throne, but because my brother suddenly died and I became the new Crown Prince, that promise was passed onto us."
Realization hits Sasuke's face as his father speaks. "It's you opinion that matters. I won't force anything upon you," Fugaku finishes and waits for his son to react. Sasuke grips onto the paper lightly as he thinks.
Back at the Haruno's house…
Sakura just arrived home and takes off her shoes.
"I'm home!" She calls. As she looks at the messy house she starts to wander around. Things were thrown everywhere and randomly. "Ano…What happened? This does not look good…"
Sakura looks at the coffee table where the stack of envelopes is, she picks them up and opens one. "Notice of foreclosure on corporal movables? What is this?" She looks outside to the gardens where her mother is sitting.
Still holding the paper she sits down and lowers her head to look up at her mom. "Kaa-san, you're gonna ask Tou-san for a divorce again?"
She grabs her mom in a hug and says, "Come on, don't do it. You don't know how much that would hurt your daughter."
"Ay, go away! I'm tired," she tries to push her daughter off gently.
She sees the letter and so does Sakura, Sakura picks it up. "By the way, what is this? Notice of foreclosure?"
"The creditors are all talks, don't worry about them," Sakura's mother replies.
Sakura takes both her mothers' hands in hers and says, "My dear Oka-san, I will soon put an end to your sufferings. You will have nothing, but joy ahead of you, trust me!" Sakura lets go and puts a fist up.
Her mother puts on a fake smile. "Oh really? And just how will you do that?"
"A designer! I'm going to be a world-famous designer!" Sakura's fist is still in the air.
"Don't over so it," he mother says as she gets up.
"Yes, kaa-san," Sakura says as she puts her fist down. "Oka-san…buy me a sewing machine, will you, please?"
Her mother sighs. "Did you take a look around the house? I don't need you to make me more miserable."
Suddenly her mother's phone rings. It's a customer. "We treat you like family, this is Haruno Serena (Haha made up a name?), your insurance planner…"
Sakura smiles a sad smile and goes back into the house as her mom talks to a customer. She kicks something that was in the way. "Ah, ouch!" She moves it to the side and hears paper ruffling from her parent's room and goes in to see her father dumping out stuff from boxes.
"Where are you? Come out, come out wherever you are!"
Sakura jumps to his side and says, "Otou-san! Are you playing hide-and-seek again?"
Her father jumps, startled. "No, treasure hunt. Oh no! I can't find it anywhere! It's our golden ticket, now we're doomed!"
Sakura sits down on a stool and looks at her father. "What? Did you lose something?"
"The ring. The ring your grandfather gave us before he died…oh my…oh my…we're doomed…" Her dad mumbles and cries on.
Sakura thinks for a moment. "The ring? Oh you mean that thing!"
"Huh?"
"We put it there when we moved here, remember?" She points outside the room.
"Where?" He father gets up.
She takes him to the dining room. "I know it's here…:"
She crawls around under the table. "Ah! Here it is!" She points to the leg of the table. Her dad sees and lifts up the table. "C'mon Tou-san! C'mon! You're stronger than that!"
He finally lifts up the table and she grabs the ring. "Ta-dah! We stuck it in here because the table was wobbling, what do you need this for?"
He father reaches up to take the ring. "Eureka! We found it! We found it! Honey, we found it!" Sakura's father jumps up and down while he screams and hugs his daughter.
Sakura just pushes her dad and walks away. Serena runs in after hearing her husband. "Huh? What? Where? Yeah!" Her mother screams along with her husband as she takes the ring and looks at it. Her husband hugs Sakura again and kisses the top of her head.
"Hurray! We're rich! My princess! We are rich!" Her mother cries.
"No more tears, only cheers! Hip hip hooray for our Princess Sakura!" Her father puts her face in his hands and cheers. Her parents circle Sakura and held hands as they put their hand in the air and cheer some more.
Sakura puts her hands up sarcastically, totally clueless on what's happening and why.
Back at the palace…
"This is the girl you will marry," Fugaku puts down a picture. "Coincidence or fate, I don't know, but both of you are attending the same school."
"What? She's from my school?" Sasuke finally looks at his father.
"Yes, I hear she is in the art department."
Curious now, Sasuke takes the picture in his hands. He looks stoically at her up and down then later at her face again. His eyes slightly bulge.
"Are you out of your minds? Give me the ring back! And that sign or whatever." Sakura screams.
Her mother and father grab the lid and clumsily try to close it. "I'm going to go and give it back to them." Sakura crosses her arms and turns away. "Which bus do I have to take to get to the palace?"
"Calm down, Your Highness the Crown Princess," Seto, Sakura's little brother says.
"That's right, is he not right, honey?" Her mother chips in and looks at her husband.
"What are you guys doing? Are you out of your minds? Wake up and smell the coffee!" Sakura grabs the box holding the ring and sign and walks off.
"Oh my gosh!" Her mother says and sits up. He father tries to grab the box.
"Crown princess, please calm down!" Her father scolds. "Hand me the ring!" He puts if behind his back and sighs while he looks at her.
Sakura sighs in frustration. "Who weds in arranged marriages in this day and age?" Sakura whines. "Oka-san, Otou-san! Do you know how old I am? I'm only in high school!"
"Sakura-chan! I'll buy you that sewing machine?" Her mother runs up to her and tries to cheer her up. Her father smiles and nudges her.
She unconsciously smiles then frowns. "That's not the point! Are you out of your minds? Why would the Crown Prince marry someone like me?"
"What are you talking about?" Her father retorts. "Remember that phone call from the palace?" Her father suddenly looks all proper and his voice goes formally deep. "The Crown Prince has agrees to accept the marriage, dear Crown Princess." He says as he holds the box.
"Whatever! I don't know why he said yes, but he already has a pretty girlfriend."
Her brother, her mom, her dad look up and at each other. "Huh?" They all say in unison.
"I even saw him proposing to her."
"What? Who?" Her brother asks.
"The Crown Prince?" Her father asks.
"To who?" Her mother asks."
"She's a dance major at our school. She has rich parents, is pretty and good at ballet, that's as far as I know."
Everyone sighs, and then her father says. "Darn! We have competition!"
"He's probably out of his mind right now, because he got rejected."
"He got rejected? Who? Why?" Seto responded.
"Anyways, I'm calling the marriage off. Forget it!" Sakura stomps to her room.
"Oh no…" Serena looks at her husband. Both share a sad look.
At the palace…
Sasuke is outside, early in the morning, doing target practice with a bow and arrow. He pulls the string and let's goes; the bow flies and hits the red target.
"The Queen has decided to petition His Majesty the King. She can accept downsizing the royal guards, but she's concerned that removing them outside the school gate will loosen the security." Sasuke listens and continues shooting arrows.
"Do you see this marriage as a means to get things your way?" Takashi (If I put Kakashi in the other chapter that is a mistake, but I'm too lazy to change it so yeah…), his butler asks. "If so, I'm afraid this marriage has many troubles on its way. These are the words from servant who's assisted you for fourteen years. Please think this over again."
"Did she say anything else?" Sasuke asks as he takes another arrow.
"I'm afraid so. She was concerned about the Crown Princess to be. She's not from a prominent family, not in the same class with the royal household."
"Do you think so too?" Sasuke asks the Butler.
"I'm not in opinion of such matters, your highness." Takashi replies and bows.
"Don't you think it's funny? A woman arranged to be the Crown Princess in the 21st century." Sasuke says with a slightly amused expression. "I was getting bored anyways. This might get pretty interesting with that classless girl in the palace."
The butler smiles a bit and bows; Sasuke goes back to his arrows.
At the academy…
Sakura sneaks up behind her friends and knees them in the back of their knees while they are both standing in front of a mirror. "Aaah!" Ino and Mikomi yells.
They both turn around and playfully hit Sakura. Sakura runs and bumps into someone.
"Sorry," Sakura bows and looks up to see Tanashi Hana turn around. Her face turns from apologetic to sad, Hana turns around and brushes her shoulder and walks on.
She turns around and looks at Sakura; Sakura still has a sad look on her face.
In the dance room…
"2, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8," a girl counts as her and her classmate do ballet routines. "1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8, switch, 2,2,3,4,5,6,7,8."
Hana walks in and to the locker room to change into her ballet clothes.
"Hey, this is top secret, but there's an emergency in the palace preparing for the Crown Prince's marriage." Girl A says.
"Really? Who told you that?" Girl B.
"My Otou-san, he works for the palace internal affairs, remember?"
Hana hears and stops to listen.
"Oh my gosh, then it must be true."
"I have even bigger news."
"What is it?" Girl A looks out to the class.
"The bride-to-be is from out school," Girl A continues.
Girl B gasps. "Really? I wonder who it is."
"Now, that I don't know."
"Oh my gosh, if she is from our school, can it be me?"
Hana smiles, thinking it's her.
"Ah, whatever, go back to practice."
After Ballet class…
Sasuke and Hana are in one of the rooms used for piano practice.
"What are they talking about?" Hana asks Sasuke.
He looks up from the piano. "I mean, I was wondering if it was me. There's a rumor that the Crown Princess-to-be is from our school." She looks up at Sasuke.
"I thought we were supposed to keep this a secret before we go to college," she continues.
"It's not you, so don't worry about it," Sasuke says. Hana looks up, surprised.
"What?"
"I recently found out too," He swallows. "But it's not you."
"T-then who is it?"
"There are lots of ambiguous things happening in and around the palace," he sighs. "This is one of them."
"Crazy things like accidently listening to her future husband asking another girl to marry him." (FATE! Lol sorry I couldn't help it! XD)
Hana tries to registers it and looks up at him. "N-no way…"
Back at the Haruno's…
Sakura is in the living room, debating with herself. "Okay! I'll eventually marry someone anyways, so why not now?" Sakura with two fists in front of her, looking brave.
Her family in the other room right behind her are silently cheering "yeah!" and giving each other high fives while pretending to sit and do chores. Her brother holding a mom, her dad pretending to hold a dish and wiping it. Her mother sitting pretending to sew.
"No, no," she looks down sadly at her plant saying in a sad tone. "I'm too young. I have many years ahead of me…"
Her family slumps down, shaking their heads.
Sakura suddenly looks up determined. "But this is a once in a lifetime opportunity!" The fists are up again! "Should I take it?"
Silent cheers behind her again. This time they are hugging and jumping.
"I must be going crazy! Sakura! Get yourself together!" Sakura hits her head. Her family stops jumping and disperse from the hug.
"Should I?" Family ready to jump again, quietly egging her on.
"Or shouldn't I?" His family frowns.
She quickly turns around and her family wipes their smiles on their face and goes back to their "chores".
He dad turns on the vacuum cleaner as everyone clears their throats.
"Princess Sakura, what are you going to do about meeting Her Highness tomorrow?" Her mother asks.
"Are you out of your mind? Why would I wanna go meet that woman?" Sakura retorts.
"But a promise is a promise," Her father speaks up.
"I didn't promise anything," Sakura says. "It's not my problem!" She walks through them and to her room.
She turns around and jokingly says, "Should I?"
Her family picks up pillows and throws it at her. "Do you think this is funny?" They say in unison as Sakura walks to her room again.
In Sakura's room…
Sakura is struggling with her ancient sewing machine as she tries to fix it. Her brother sleep in the attic which is the stair-ladder that is next to her desk.
"What are you even doing with that junk anyways?" Her brother says while playing with his toy. "You're the 3rd highest woman in Japan."
"What?" She says as she attacks the sewing machine.
"Number 1 is the Queen Mother! Number 2 is the Queen! Number three you, fatso! Crown Princess!" Her brother holds up three fingers.
Sakura swivels around in her chair so she is facing him. "You punk! Don't call your sister a fatso!" She playfully kicks him.
"If you marry the Crown Prince, I'll call you by your name."
She reaches over and hits him over the head repeatedly as he goes to her chair and she lands on the bed.
"Do you think I'm gonna get married just for that?"
"Just go get married. Aren't you tired of living this way? I'm tired of going up and down the attic. With you gone. I'll have the whole room to myself. Besides you won't have to yell at me for being noisy anymore!"
"Whatever! What makes you think I'm gonna do that for you?"
"Psh! If you don't marry him, I will! I'm much prettier than you, you fatso!" He insults her and even adds a thumbs down.
"I'm going to kill you, you little punk!" Sakura chases after him.
He grabs the box with the ring and whispers. "My precious!"
"You little!" Sakura nearly trips on her blanket and runs after him in the hall.
In the morning Sakura's mother does her hair. She's all dressed up for the meeting.
"How pretty," her father compliments her.
"I told you I'm not going! What the heck is this?" Sakura turns to her family and yells.
"I know we're broke because Otou-san went out of business and he is signed as a guarantor."
Sakura's father sighs. "Otou-san's been out of work for over a year, and mom works as an insurance planner, and I know that my lesson and art academy tuition aren't cheap either. I know what you're going through for me and Seto, but…"
Her parent's sad faces turn curious and anxious as they stare at her. "But?" They say in unison.
"But do you have to sell me off like this?"
Her parents look at each other and sigh. Sakura's father looks at Seto who is holding the ring and snatches it. "Fine, then. Let's call the whole thing off." He throws the ring randomly somewhere.
"What are you out of your minds?" Sakura's mother hits his arm.
Seto stands up and runs to find it. "You heard her! We can't give up our daughter for money! Money isn't everything, right? Is it?" He says.
"It is, it is everything," Sakura's mother retorts. He looks at her and calms down.
Sakura's mother swallows. "You might be too young to understand, but marriage is everything to a woman. I don't want you to live like me; I don't want you to have this life."
Sakura looks down at her hands. "That's why I'm doing this, not to sell you off." She sighs. "It's your life, let's call if off then." She nudges her husband.
He reaches behind him and takes something wrapped up in white soft cloth tied with a red bow and puts it on the table. Sakura looks up to look at it.
She blinks as her father pulls off the cloth to reveal a brand, new sewing machine. "Whoa!" She touches it gingerly.
"It's a new model," he dad says, smiling at her.
Sakura looks up and stops smiling. "We can't afford this. We're in debt. Why'd you get something so expensive?"
Her father sighs. "Okay! Found it!" Seto comes back with the ring.
"Why'd you do that? We don't need it anymore," Mr. Haruno yells at his son. "hand it over. I'll throw it away!"
"No way! I already told my friends!" Seto tries to hide the ring in his jacket.
"What?" His mom remarked.
Then Seto looks at the sewing machine. "It's not fair! You got her a sewing machine! Buy me an MP3 player!"
Ding Dong!
Mr. Haruno glances up at the direction of the door and looks back at Sakura. "I think it's from the palace."
Turns out its people looking for her dad. They came in and stuck stickers to things worth anything in the house since the family is in big debt.
"Nothing's worth anything here…" One man says.
"This is too sad…"Another one says.
The whole family is sitting in the living room, watching the men walk around and put stickers on things.
One man pushes Sakura and Seto out so he can stick a sticker on the TV.
"Honey, it's all my fault," Mr. Haruno whispers to his wife. "My fault for having a bad friend. My fault for signing as a guarantor."
"Be quiet, I didn't ask you whose fault it was." Mrs. Haruno says and stands up. She walks up to one of the men and says, "Sir, although it's not enough we are trying to pay back bit by bit. We'll pay it off, even it means we'll have to take another loan, I promise."
He sticks a sticker on the sewing machine. "Oh my gosh, what's he doing? No, you can't take this!" Sakura runs to it.
"You can't do this! What are you doing?" Serena takes off the sticker.
One man takes her arm and tries to shove her off, a big man Mr. Haruno and his son catches her.
"You should've paid us back when we asked nicely!" The man yells at her.
"How do you expect me to pay you back after quintupling the interest? Then you tell me to sign a contract to give up my organs! You dirty loan sharks!"
"Watch your mouth, woman!" the man behind her holding Seto's basketball throws it as everyone flinches. "You don't know what I can do to you!"
"Hey, the kids are watching!" Mr. Haruno asserts. "How can you say that to their mother?"
"Let's call it a tragedy brought upon the family by their incompetent father," one man pronounces.
"You better watch your mouth!" Mrs. Haruno retorts.
"It's the truth," the basketball man says and sticks a sticker onto Mr. Haruno's head.
"Why you…" Mr. Haruno points a finger at the man and pushes him. Next thing you know everyone's pushing and pulling. The craziness goes all the way out to the front door. The man with the glasses trying to calm everyone down gets pulled in. Things are being thrown everywhere! If you look you can see pots and pans literally flying out the front door.
"Be careful, Sakura!" Her father pulls her back as she was trying to butt her head to them, but they didn't even budge.
"Do you even know who she is? You don't stand a chance against me!" Mr. Haruno declares.
The man turns to Sakura who is protectively holding her father. "You little girl, you better watch your back at night."
He chuckles and puts up a hand as they all scream and hug each other.
Then Sakura looks to the open gate to see people from the Palace getting out of their cars. The man threatens them again her mom screams. Sakura looks up and gives him a glare.
"Why you! What are you looking at?"
Sakura jumps up and looks like she was about to punch him, but stops. He looks at her surprised. She instead puts down her arm and looks at Seto.
"The ring…and the sign." He reaches in his pocket to take it out. He puts it into her hand and she closes her hand. Sakura turns around and pulls off the red sticker on her dad's forehead.
"Sakura! Stop! You're not going anywhere looking like that!" He mother call after her as she makes her way to the car where the men from the palace are waiting and silently watching.
On the way there, Sakura kept looking at the ring in her hand. Then she remember he hair and reached up to fix it. It was messed up the brawl at home.
They arrive at the palace and Sakura steps out the car and follow the two men inside the big palace. She passes rooms after rooms of maids and such busy setting up tables or such. They take her to a room with a long table and chairs and tell her to sit at one end of the table.
She was about to pull the chair out herself from habit, but the man pulled out the seat for her. She bowed and said thank you and sat.
"The Queen is on her way. As I said on our way here, please keep in mind all the things to consider when meeting her. Sakura nods.
"Don't look at her straight in the eyes, and don't speak before she does, don't forget," Sakura nods. "You must address her as, "Your Highness" at the beginning and the end of each sentence. She's on her way, so wait for a little while."
"Hai, thank you." Sakura bowed her head lightly. They bowed back and dismissed themselves.
Two women walked in. One holding a tray with tea, the other setting it down before Sakura. She poured pink looking tea onto Sakura's cup.
"This is Schisandra tea. Please enjoy." The maid bows.
"Arigato (Thank you)," Sakura bows and both the maids do the same and leave.
"Schisandra?" Sakura repeats. She smells it and takes a drink. Sakura becomes bored and curious so she walks to the tables around the room to look at the decorations and ornaments.
"Wow, it's a dragon," she touches it. She picks up a handcrafted fabrics and touches it as she analyzes the patterns and sesign. "Whoa…"
"Huh, I think I've seen this before, she looks at something and bent down. In the process her bottom bumped into a side table with a vase on it. She turns around and catches it, just in time. She takes a deep breath and lets it go, relieved it didn't break.
"That was close," Sakura puts it back in its place and goes back to her seat. She takes drink of her tea and while looking back at the vase relieved she didn't put the cup back in its saucer correctly and it lands the teacup lands on her white skirt.
"Oh no! What do I do?" She tries to run it out, but it makes it worse. Now she has a big pink stain on her skirt.
"The Queen has arrived!" A woman calls. Sakura looks up and to the entrance. "Oh no…"
AH! Finished with this chapter! DO YOU KNOW HOW LONG I SPENT TO FINISH THIS IN ONE DAY FOR YALL? 6 FREAKING HOURS OF MY LIFE! BUT it was sorta fun reminiscing about Princess Hours/Goong…I love this movie and I hope you guys enjoyed this chapter I think it's the longest chapter I Have ever written! 15 PAGES ON MICROSOFT WORD BABY! SO PLEASE ENJOY AND REVIEW! PRINCE SAI WILL COME IN SHORTLY ;). PEACE!